BRENTWOOD — Four Drug Task Force officers, who were shot while serving warrants at the Greenland home of Cullen Mutrie, are seeking a second deadline extension to prove Mutrie obtained the gun from his mother.

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By Elizabeth Dinan

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By Elizabeth Dinan

Posted Feb. 25, 2014 at 2:00 AM

By Elizabeth Dinan

Posted Feb. 25, 2014 at 2:00 AM

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BRENTWOOD — Four Drug Task Force officers, who were shot while serving warrants at the Greenland home of Cullen Mutrie, are seeking a second deadline extension to prove Mutrie obtained the gun from his mother.

In October, Superior Court Judge Kenneth McHugh said the DTF officers' legal case against Mutrie "continues to hang by a thread" and he imposed a Jan. 1 deadline "to provide evidence that it was the defendant that supplied the gun to her son."

"Absent that evidence, the court will be compelled to grant the defendant's motion to dismiss," the judge ordered.

The deadline was extended when the officers' lawyer, Christopher Grant, informed the court that he was granted federal approval to receive an unredacted report by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms about the shootings. Grant said Monday that he has not yet received that federal report, so he has petitioned the court for another extension.

The shootings occurred April 12, 2012, while members of the Attorney General's DTF were conducting a drug investigation into Cullen Mutrie, who faced pending charges alleging domestic assault and possession of anabolic steroids. The AG's office said Mutrie also shot and killed Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney from a basement window, shot and killed his alleged drug-dealing co-conspirator Brittany Tibbetts, then fatally shot himself.

According to the AG's office, the four DTF officers were shot while serving two warrants, one for Tibbetts' arrest on a drug-dealing charge and the other to search the Mutrie property.

Two Greenland officers were sent to the front door to try to coax Mutrie out, and when he didn't answer the door, the DTF officers used a battering ram to force their way into the home, the AG's office said. The officers were met by Mutrie, who shot at them point-blank with a .357 revolver, according to authorities.

The source of that revolver is the crux of the civil suit filed against Beverly Mutrie by the DTF officers.

The officers' civil suit alleges Beverly Mutrie is responsible for their injuries because she knowingly, "wantonly and recklessly" allowed criminal activity to occur at the house where she allowed her son to live cost-free. This occurred, the officers allege, because Beverly Mutrie was aware of her son's ongoing criminal activity, financed his legal defenses and provided him with weapons after he was barred from owning any due to a domestic-violence arrest.

According to the attorney general's office, after the shootings, police found 27.4 grams of cocaine, anabolic steroids and more than $14,000 in cash in the Mutrie home. An autopsy revealed traces of narcotics, steroids and opiates in Cullen Mutrie's body, the AG said.